What Motivates Us

Dan Pink gave a great TED talk on what motivates people, that I featured in a previous post.

Yesterday he was interviewed on Forum, a public radio program on KQED, talking about what he calls Motivation 3.0.

• Autonomy - feeling trusted to do the work and giving some degree of freedom about how to get it done.
• Mastery - a sense that the work is providing learning opportunities to grow.
• Purpose - a sense that the work being done has a higher purpose that we can feel passionate about.

There is much here of relevance for the games industry!



I also recommend his book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.